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LATEJ{ POKMS.

)^ i''(/. pricalc viixukUion.']

Jan. 1880.

^ FAREWELL,

My feet arc set for other ways,

And 1 go forth alone,
("ruHhing aside tlie heaitsickncss

With careless look and tone.
I dash my hand across my eyes

With a laugh that's half a moan : —
(Jood-bye ! Good-bye ! <!od rc.-t with thee.

My City — Fredcricton.

OFF PELORUS.

Crimson swims the sunset over far Pelorus,

liurning crimson tops its frowning crest of pine ;

Purple sleeps the shore and floats the wave before us,
Each wlicre from the oar-strokc eddying warm like wine.

Soundless foams the creamy violet wake beliind u,s ;

We but sc<: the creaking of the laboured oar ;
We have stopped our ears, mad were we not to blind us.

Lest with eyes grown drunken sail we herce no more.

See the purple .splendor o'er the island streaming,
O'er the prostrate sails and cijual-sided ships :

Windless hangs the vine, and warm the sands lie glcamin",
Uroop the great grape-clusters melting for the lips.

Sweet the golden calm, the glowing light clysian I

Sweet were red-mouthed plenty windless grown of pain I

Sweeter yet beliold a sore-bewildering vision 1 —
Idly took we thought, and stopped our ears in vain.

Idly took we thought, for still our eyes betray us : —
Lo the white-limbed maids with beckoning arms divine.

Throbbing bosoms bare, loosed hair, soft hands to slay us.
Throats athrob with song across the charmed briue 1

See tlie King I lie hearkens— hears their song— strains forward,
As .some mountain snake attends the .shepherd's reed ;

Now with urgent hand he bids us turn us shoreward : —
Bend the groaning oar now, give the king no heed.

Mark the wondrous music by his eyes wild yearniu"-.

Eager lips, and mighty straining at the cords.
>v'cll wc guess the song, the subtle words and buriiiiij.

Sung to him the subtle king of burning words ;— "

" Much-cnJuririj; wanderer, lioncy-tongnccl, conic ni^licr ;

''ViscHt Ruler, Haiie ol" I lion's lofty walla,
Hear stranjrc wisiloni to thine uttermost desire, —

Whatsoe'er in all the rruitful earth befalls."

So wc rise up twain and make his bonds securer.

Sect)ics the startled sea now from the surjj;ing blade ;
Leaps tlio dark ship forth, a.s we, wiih hearts grown surer,

Eyes averse, and war-worn faces made afraid,

O'er the waste warm reaches drive our prow soa-elcavin',',
Past the luring death, into the folding night : —

Home shall hcUrus yet— and cease our wives frojii gr'eving-
Safc frum storm, and toil, and (lame, and clangini; b^ht.

Fti. 1881.

FJW3I FIRE.

Save what the night-wind woke of sweet
And solemn sound, I heard alone

The slecples;! ocean's ceaseioss beat.
The surge's monotone.

l^ow down the south a dreary gleam

Of white light smote the sudden swcllsj

Evasive as a blissful dream,
Or wird-borne notes of bcllg.

The waters lapping whispers stole
Into my brain, and there eft'aced

All human memories I'rom my soul —
An atom in a shifting waste.

Wierd lingers groping strove to raise
Some numbing horror frora my mind,

And ever, as it met ray gaze.
The sharp truth struck me blind.

The keen-edged breath of the salt sea

Stung ; but a faint swift sulphurous smeU

IJlew past, and I reeled dizzily
As from the brink ol hell.

One moment; but the swan necked prow
Sustained me, and once more I scanned

The unfcnccd flood, against my brow
Arching my lifted hand.

O'er all the unstable vague expanse

1 towered tlu' lord suprenu?, and smiled ;

And marked the hard white sparkles glance,
The dark vault wide and wild.

TV^'nin flint laiiit v.ind swoj t my Inco —
W'itli hideous tnotifico sw(>|it my oyos :

1 cuwuioJ li.'ick it) my stniitiMicil [il.icc
Anil groped with dim sjurmisc,

Not knov/injj; yet. Not knowing; why,
I turned, as one asleep might turn.

And noted with half-curious eye
The figure crouched astern.

On heaped up leopard-skins she crouched
Asleep, and soi't :*kins covered her.

And scarlet stuiFs where she was couclied,
Sodden with bilge-water,

liurned lurid with black stains, and smote
My thought with waking pangs ; I saw

The white arm drooping from the boat,
Kound-mouldod, without Haw ;

The yellow sandals even-thonged ;

The fair face wan with haunting pain :
Then sudden crowding memories thronged,

Jiikc unjiont sudden rain.

Clear stamped, as by white lightning when
The swift flame rends the night, wide-eyed

I saw dense streets, and flying men,
And walls from side to side

Reeling, and great rocks fallen., a pall
Above us, an encumbering shroud

About our I'eet, and over all
The awful Form that bowed

Our hearts, — the fiery scourge that smote
The city, — the red Mount ; clear, clear

I saw it, — and this lonely boat,
And us two drifting here.

With one sharp cry I sprang and hid
My face among the skins beside

licr feet, and held her safe and chid
The tumult till it died.

A:id crouched thus at her rescued feet,
Save her low breach, I heard alone

The sleepless ocean's ceaseless beat,
The surge's monotone.

Chatham, Oct. 1881.

TO lUifMKMiniY OF iiJI^EY LAMEh'.

Sullenly fall.s (lie r.iin, *

Still lianas the dripping leaf,
And all I the ))ain I

Tlio i^Iow dull ache of my f^ricf'!
Tliat tlirohs — ." In vain ! In vain I

Vou have garnered your sheaf."

Von have garnered your sheaf with the tares

Therein, and unripe wheat —
All that death spares,

Who has come with too swift feet,
Not turning for any prayers,

Nor all wivo entreat.

They entreated with tears ; but I —
Ah me I all I can say

Is only a cry.

I liad loved you many a day,

i'et never had fate drawn nigh
Wy way to your way.

My spirit made swift with love
Went forth to you in your place

Far off and above ;

Tliough we met not face to face,

My older Brother, yet love
Had i)lerced through space.

'"C^iitnam, Oct. ISbl.

— 4-

A BALLAD OF CALYPSO.

The loud black flight of the storm diverges

(_)ver a spot in the loud-mouthed main"]
Where, crowned with summer and sun, emerges

An isle unbeaten of wind or rain.

Here of its mystical mistress fain,
JJy whose ki.«scs the whole broad earth seems poor.

Tarries the wave-worn prince, Troy's bane,
In the green Ogygian Isle secure.

To her voice our sweetest songs arc dirges ;

She gives liim all things, counting it gain ;
Ringed with the rocks and and ancient surges,

How could Fate dissever these twain I

Hut him no luves nor delights retain ;
New knowledge, new lands, now loves allure, —

Forgotten the perils, and tears, and pain, '
In the green Ogygian Isle secure.

«So lie spurns her kixscs and jjil'tn, and iiri^'cs

His wc'ik skill" over tlie wind-vext pliiiii,
Till the f,'rcy ol" iho sky in the grey sea merges,

And nights reel round, and waver, and wane.

lie sits onee more in his own dnniain ;
No more tlie remote sea-walls immure ; —

IJut ah 1 i'or tlic love lie shall elasp nut aj^ain,
In the green Ogygian Isle secure I

Enroi

rrinecH, and yc whose delights remain,
To tlie one good gift of the gods hold sure,

Jiest ye too mourn in vain, in vain,
Vour green Ogygian Isle secure.

IWNDEAU.

To Louis llonorc Frechclle.

Laurels for Song I and nobler bays,

In old Olympian golden days
or clamour through the ciear-eyod morn,
No bowed triumphant head hatii borne,

Victorious in all Hellas' gaze.

They watched liis glowing axles graze
The goal, tlicn rent the heaven with praise ;
Still the suprcnier heads have worn
- Jjaurels for song.

So thee, from no palaestra-plays
A con(jueror, to the gods we raise,
Whose brows, of all our singers born,
The sacred fillets chief adorn, —
Who first of all our choir displays
Laurels for song.
Chatham, Xcv. 1881.

BllO THElt CUTIlBEli T.

Cuthbert, open ; let me in I

(^ease your praying for a minute I

Here the darkness seems to grin.
Holds a thousand horrors in it;

Down the stony corridor

Footsteps pace the stony floor.

Here they foot it, pacing slow,
Monklike, one behind another :

Don't you hear me '/ Don't you know
I'm a little nervous. Brother '!

Won't you speak ? Then by your leave

Here's a guest for Christmas Kve.

Shrivn me. but I f];ot a frijilit !

Monks of coiiturics af.'o
Wiinder back to Kce toiiij^bt

How tbo old place looks: — Holloa!
Tbirt tlie kind of watdi you keep —
Cc^nift to pray — and po to slncp !

Slianic, man I Keep your vi},'il ! Wukc !

Double penance cise your b, ics
Soon will pay with wrench and ache

For your tempting couch of stones.
Hard and cold your couch and cell,
Urotlier, yet you slumber well I

Ah, this mortal flesh is weak !

Who is saintly there's no saying.
Here is tears upon his cheek ;

And he sleeps, that .'<hould be praying, —
Sleeps, and dreams, and murmurs : Nay,
I'll not wake you ; sleep away !

Holy saints, the night is keen !

How the nipping wind does drive
Through yon tree-tops bare and lean,

Till their shadow seems alive,
Patters through tlie bars, and falls
Shivering on the floor and walls !

How yoa patch of freezing sky
Echoes back their bell-ringings !

Down iu-thc ji,rcy cily, iiigh """ "

Severn, every steeple swings ;

All the busy streets arc bright, —

Many folk are out to-night.

What's that, Brother '/ Did you speak 'i

Christ save them that talk in sleep !

Smile they howsoever meek,

Somewhat in their hearts they keep.
We, good souls, what shifts we make

To keep talking while awake !

Christ be praised, that fetched mc in

Karly, yet a youngling, while
All unJearncd in life and sin,

Love and travail, grief and guile !
For yonr world of two-score year's,
Cuthbert, all you have is tears.

Dreaming, still ho hears the bells

As he heard them years ago,
Ere he sought our quiet cells

Iron-mouthed, and wrenched with woe,
Out of what dread storms who knows —
Faithfulest of friends and foes.

L t

rHilliCul wa.« lie aye, T wccn,
Pitiful, urid kind, and wise;

Jiut in mindful n)uod.s I've seen

Flame enoui;h in (hose sunk cvcm •—

riai«cd bo Christ, whose timely Hand

Plucked from out tlic fire this brand !

Now in dreams he's many miles
Hence, he's back in Ireland.

Ah, how tenderly he smiles,
Stretching a caressing liand !

Ijackward now his memory glides

To old happy Christmas-tides.

Now once more a loving wife
Holds him, now he sees his boys,

bmiles at all their playful strife,

All their childish mirth and noise :—

boltly now she strokes his hair—

Ah, their world is very fair !

——Waking, all your loss shall bo

Unforgotton evermore.
Sleep alone holds these for thco ;

Sleep then, Brother. To restore
AH your heaven that has died
Heaven and Hell may be too wide.

Sleep, and drij

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Joon you'll wake, and cease to smile,
^ And your heart will sink with pain ;
You will hear the merry town.
And a weight will press you down.

Hungry-hearted, you will see

Only the thin shadows fall
From yon bleak-topped poplar-tree —

Icy fingers on the wall ;
You will watch them come and go,
Telling o'er your count of woe.

-Nay, now, hear me ! how I prate !

I, a foolish monk and old,
^laundering o'er a life and fate

To me unknown, by you untold :
Yet I know your like to weep
Soon, so. Brother, this night sleep.
, Dec. ntJi, 1881.

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I'O Flii:i)KniCTON IN I/.l )• 77J/A'.

Tli'm inornin;; full of brcczcH ami pcrfumo—
lirinif'ul ol'iiroiniso of iiiitlsuuiiiicr wcutlior —
When bccH, and birdu, und I aro glad tu{^cthor,

]kcatliofl fiP tlio full-lonvod c^n;- >u, when soft gloom

Chcfj'iors thy streets, and thy close olnis assumo „

Kuund roof and Hjiiro the ooniblanco of green billows ;
Yet now thy glory is the yellow willows —

The yellow willows full of bees and bloom.

Tinder their nicaly blossoms black-birds meet,
And robini- pipe amid tlio cedars nighcr ;

'Jhrough the Htilj elms 1 hear the ferry's beat ;
The swallows chirp about the towering spire ;

The whole air pulses with its weight of sweet,
Yet not quite suti^Hed is my desire.

F'lon. May 24//i, 1881.

THE SLAVE WOMAN.

Shedding cool drops upon the sun-baked clay,
The dripping jar, brimfull, she rests a sp'tec
On thti well's dry white brink, and ! ui !ior face,
Heavy with tears and many a heartsick day,
Down to the water's lip, whciK lips away

A rivulet through the ho', bright square apaeo ;
And lo I^ her brow hati ^ ist ear^'-^iervile trace —

X J. ni ^sZiti a'ouui TncMliI ii.au-w.yij iiGi '•.ayii'..liu, imi. .j-

Ah desolate one ! Thy fate thou hast forgot '

A moment j the dull pain hath left those eyes
Whose yearning pierces time, and space, and tears :
Thou scest what was once, but now is not, —
liy Niger thy bright homo, thy Paradise,
Un.scathed of flame, and foe, and hostile spears.
June, 1881.

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